"These
are magical moments that take us from not knowing,
to knowing....I have theorized and unscientifically and anecdotally
confirmed thus far, that the majority of these learning
moments for most of us involve interaction with at least
one other human  a teacher, a mentor, a peer, a parent, a
friend. Most of them dont happen without connections to other
human beings, or with our head resting in frustration on a textbook
 or a keyboard."(Why
the Squirrel?)

Jonathan
E. Finkelstein , founder and Executive Producer of LearningTimes
and the President of the LearningTimes Network,
25-Sep-2002

"After
the verb 'to love,' the verb 'to help' is the most beautiful verb
in the world."

"Make no
little plans. They have no magic to stir mens blood .... Make
big plans. Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical
diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will
be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency."
-- Daniel Burnham

"Nothing
makes me sadder than the peer pressure
that enforces conformity and erases wonder. ...Countless others had
the
light of intellectual wonder extinguished because a thoughtless and
swaggering fellow student called them nerds on the playground....
We must
rage against the dying of the light - and although Dylan Thomas spoke
of
bodily death in his famous line, we may also apply his words to the
extinction of wonder in the mind, by pressures of conformity in an
anti-intellectual culture." - Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for
Brontosaurus:
Reflections in Natural History. 1991

The aim of
education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to
think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to
think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other
men. ~Bill Beattie

If you think
education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy
McIntyre and Derek Bok

"Technology
will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not." - Ray Clifford

Nothing
is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the
sand were stone.

Jorge
Luis Borges

I do not accept
any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead
to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow
and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live
with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure
in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence
on our willingness to explore and experience.

Martin Buber

"The
task of education is not to pour information into students' heads,
but to engage students' minds with powerful and useful concepts."
(Slavin, B.)

Great Teams
Are Built On The Foundation Of Great Leadership. Great Leadership
Is Built On The Foundation Of Great Trust. (Quoted from an online
list-Training Ideas).

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that
tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. - Ralph Waldo Emerson